All Stories

  1. The W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary, Version 2: Rationale, Design Principles, and Uptake

    Article • Data Intelligence, December 2023, The MIT Press

    Dr Riccardo Albertoni, Dr Simon J D Cox

  2. Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable

    Article • Nature, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox, Jeremy Frey, Dr Stuart J Chalk

  3. Metadata

    Article • November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  4. Ten simple rules for making a vocabulary FAIR

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, June 2021, PLOS

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  5. Developing Global Coordination of Solid Earth Research Infrastructures in Support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  6. eReefs: An operational information system for managing the Great Barrier Reef

    Article • Journal of Operational Oceanography, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  7. SOSA: A lightweight ontology for sensors, observations, samples, and actuators

    Article • Journal of Web Semantics, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  8. Earth and Environment Science Information Partners: ESIP & E2SIP parallel pathways on opposite sides of the globe

    Article • January 2019, Wiley

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  9. The modular SSN ontology: A joint W3C and OGC standard specifying the semantics of sensors, observations, sampling, and actuation

    Article • Semantic Web – Interoperability Usability Applicability, December 2018, IOS Press

    Armin Haller, Dr Simon J D Cox, Raúl García Castro

  10. Specimen Identifiers in Related Disciplines: What can Biodiversity Learn from and Offer to Other Fields?

    Article • Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, May 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  11. Facilitating improved access and integrated use of data – a case study using the AWRA-L dataset

    Article • December 2017, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  12. PROV ontology supports alignment of observational data (models)

    Article • December 2017, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  13. A Digital Repository for Physical Samples: Concepts, Solutions and Management

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  14. Oceanographic and Marine Cross-Domain Data Management for Sustainable Development

    Article • January 2017, IGI Global

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  15. Ontology for observations and sampling features, with alignments to existing models

    Article • Semantic Web – Interoperability Usability Applicability, December 2016, IOS Press

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  16. Representing and publishing physical sample descriptions

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  17. OWL-Time extended

    Article • Semantic Web – Interoperability Usability Applicability, February 2016, IOS Press

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  18. Validating observation data in WaterML 2.0

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  19. SEARCH AND ORCHESTRATION OF DATA AND PROCESSES IN A FEDERATED ENVIRONMENT

    Article • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, June 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  20. Collaborative Knowledge in Scientific Research Networks

    Article • January 2015, IGI Global

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  21. A Best of Both Worlds Approach to Complex, Efficient, Time Series Data Delivery

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  22. Towards Linked Data Conventions for Delivery of Environmental Data Using netCDF

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  23. SISSVoc: A Linked Data API for access to SKOS vocabularies

    Article • Semantic Web – Interoperability Usability Applicability, December 2014, IOS Press

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  24. A geologic timescale ontology and service

    Article • Earth Science Informatics, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  25. WaterML2.0: development of an open standard for hydrological time-series data exchange

    Article • Journal of Hydroinformatics, April 2013, IWA Publishing

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  26. The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group

    Article • Journal of Web Semantics, December 2012, Elsevier

    Raúl García Castro, Dr Simon J D Cox

  27. Configuration management of a system of interdependent standards

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  28. Use of standard vocabulary services in validation of water resources data described in XML

    Article • Earth Science Informatics, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  29. Citizen-based sensing of crisis events: sensor web enablement for volunteered geographic information

    Article • Applied Geomatics, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  30. Geospatial Information Modelling for Interoperable Data Exchange - Application Schema Modelling: From Concept to Implementation

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  31. GeoSciML: Enabling the Exchange of Geological Map Data

    Article • ASEG Extended Abstracts, January 2006, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Simon J D Cox, Boyan Brodaric

  32. A formal model for the geologic time scale and global stratotype section and point, compatible with geospatial information transfer standards

    Article • Geosphere, January 2005, Geological Society of America

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  33. XMML ? a standards conformant XML language for transfer of exploration data

    Article • ASEG Extended Abstracts, January 2004, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  34. Earth-science datasets for the Australian continent online: the AGCRC map-maker, OpenGIS and beyond

    Article • January 2003, Geological Society of America

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  35. Accessing Australian geodynamic information: The AGCRC website

    Article • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, August 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  36. Denudation history of the Snowy Mountains: Constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology

    Article • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, April 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  37. Generalizations of power-law distributions applicable to sampled fault-trace lengths: model choice, parameter estimation and caveats

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, February 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  38. Inelastic Effects of Microcracking: A New Continuum Damage Model

    Article • International Journal of Damage Mechanics, January 1999, SAGE Publications

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  39. Optimising the application of the Hough transform for automatic feature extraction from geoscientific images

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, December 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  40. A modern regression approach to determining fault displacement-length scaling relationships

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, February 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  41. Spectral acoustic techniques for joint and fracture characterization

    Article • Exploration Geophysics, January 1995, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  42. The anisotropy of surface roughness measured using a digital photogrammetric technique

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1995, Geological Society

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  43. A large, high-pressure, triaxial cell

    Article • International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts, October 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  44. Effect of finite-element mesh topology on simulating mechanical breakdown in solids

    Article • Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, May 1994, Wiley

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  45. Analogue experiments and numerical modelling on the relation between microgeometry and flow properties of polyphase materials

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering A, February 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  46. Scaling of rock friction constitutive parameters: The effects of surface roughness and cumulative offset on friction of gabbro

    Article • Pure and Applied Geophysics, January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  47. Microcrack formation and material softening in rock measured by monitoring acoustic emissions

    Article • International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts, February 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  48. Observation of fault gouge development in laboratory see-through experiments

    Article • Tectonophysics, March 1992, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  49. Damage development during rupture of heterogeneous brittle materials: a numerical study

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1990, Geological Society

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  50. Velocity-dependent friction in a large direct shear experiment on gabbro

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1990, Geological Society

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  51. Tensile fracture of heterogeneous solids with distributed breaking strengths

    Article • September 1989, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  52. On the formation and growth of faults: an experimental study

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, January 1988, Elsevier

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  53. Rupture initiation in shear fracture of rocks: An experimental study

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1988, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  54. A direct measurement of shear fracture energy in rocks

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 1985, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Simon J D Cox

  55. Geography Markup Language (GML)

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Simon J D Cox